Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Superhero Guests!!

Superhero birthday
party continued...

When we walked back
inside after the outside games, we had some SUPER surprise guests standing in
our living room, all posed in their action hero poses (Spiderman was in a
crouch)!! It's funny, even though Jared and I knew they were in there, we both
said, "Whoa!" when we walked in and saw them standing there. It really was a
pretty incredible sight, seeing these characters from the movies standing in
front of us! It surprised everyone and it took a few minutes and a little
encouragement from us for the kids to walk up to and meet each character.

After meeting the
kids, the characters took turns showing the kids their "superhero moves". I
asked them to do this because one of Dallin's favorite things to do is practice,
or show us, his superhero moves (like in the videos I posted of him recently).
I knew he would really love this!
Batman went first and had a ton of cool
things to show the kids!

First, arm action

Batman let a couple of kids kick the "armour" on
his legs. This is Dallin doing that here (above).

Batman showed how he could
catch someone in his cape and wrapped it around Coey here. They (especially
Coey and Dallin) LOVED this. Dallin still talks about it actually and just
yesterday was telling me how Batman catches the bad guys in his cape.

Batman also
had some cool tools in his belt that he showed the kids, like a pair
of binoculars that he let them take turns looking through, and a bat blade
thing. He said he made a bat (blade thing) for Dallin and gave him the one
below. Dallin seriously loved this so much that he played with it for days over
any of his new toys!

Next up, Spiderman! He
started off showing the kids how he shoots webs.

And how he walks on his
hands!

And then Captain America
showed some of his moves.

And then Iron Man. I love
how even Spiderman is doing the moves, all of the characters were so involved
and SO awesome!!

Learning Iron Man
moves

One of Dallin's other
favorite things to do is to sword fight or "play fight", so I figured it
couldn't get much better for a little superhero fan than to sword fight with
real superheroes!! So we all went outside, handed the kids foam swords, and
they fought the superheroes! They had SO much fun doing this that I had the
hardest time telling them to come in to eat and only did because poor Batman was
sweating to death!

Dallin and Captain America, Luke, Ryn and
Spiderman

Elle and Batman

Mia, Coey and Spiderman

Teya and Batman

Dallin and Captain
America. This picture makes me smile so big. When the superheroes were about
to show the kids their superhero moves, Dallin was just staring at Captain
America and said, "I could go get my shield!" I told him to go get it, so he
ran as fast as he could upstairs and got his new shield. This kid melts me.

Kids: Eden, Teya, Dallin

Dallin and Luke LOVED it when Spiderman fell
down "dead" during the sword fight.

The kids ended up chasing the superheroes
around the yard, and the superheroes were running for their lives when there
were multiple kids after them!